Algorithm could warn of abuse problems and identify drinking hotspots

While drunks tweets are nearly always mortifying the morning after, researchers say they could actually help improve your health - and your city. Researchers analysed 11,000 tweets of New Yorkers, using them to build up a map of when and where they were sent. They hope the'drunk maps' of major cities to help offer health and safety advice. Researchers used thousands of tweets from the area and filtered them out by using alcohol-related words to find where people were drinking and if they had one too many when they sent a post. The team collected 11,000 geotagged tweets sent during the year up to July 2014 from New York City and from Monroe County.